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ON
CAMPUS
University hosts debate
The Division of Communication and Public Address
sponsored the 1986 Summer Debate Institute on U.S.
agricultural policy. The institute, held in July, featured
divisions in cross-exam team debate and Lincoln-Douglas
debate.
Participants in each division received comprehensive
training in research skills, preparing affirmative and
negative arguments and preparing briefs. Also featured
were numerous practice rounds and a two-day tournament
at the conclusion of the two-week session.
KNTU 'tests' real estate market
NTSU's radio station, KNTU-FM, broadcast a new
live program, "Real Estate and You," at the end of
the spring semester. The five weekly programs featured
Dr. John Baen, a real estate expert on the College of
Business Administration faculty.
Dr. Baen, who holds degrees in urban planning and
real estate planning, has been an executive with real
estate companies, runs his own investment company,
acts as consultant to industry on real estate investments
and is the author of a book, "Guide to Texas Real
Estate License Exam," and several magazine articles
about real estate.
The program covered such topics as real estate financing,
refinancing, appraisal, tax advice on buying and selling,
home buying, for-sale-by-owner home tips, realtor
relations, title insurance and real estate careers.
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VOL. 36, No. 3
DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND
INFORMATION SERVICES—Susan Wilson
UNIVERSITY EDITOR—Lynn Dancey Rudkin
DESIGN MANAGER—Larry Paul Jones
DESIGNERS—Ronny Duwe, Danny Forrest
PHOTOGRAPHER—Ronda Corley
ASSISTANT PHOTOGRAPHER—Lee Laird
CONTRIBUTORS—Susie Autry, Carolyn Barnes, Pat
Colonna, Hank Cherry, Connie Do well, Beverly Fletcher,
Gayla Grimsley, Charlotte Guest, Julie Herrick, Tony
Ortega, Pat Potter, Carl Paries, Doug Ray, Sylvia Smith,
Peggy Spencer, Elaine Stearns, Ingrid Watson, Rose
Watson, Gayla Wilkinson
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by North Texas State University, Administration Building,
Denton, Texas 76203, for distribution to alumni, students and
other friends of the university. Second class postage paid at
Denton, Texas and at additional mailing offices.
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Fall
Journalist looks forward to selection
for flight in space
Paul Recer, a former journalism student at NTSU
who now covers the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for the Associated Press, was selected in
April as one of 40 semi-finalists for NASA's journalist
in space program, originally scheduled for fall 1987.
"I've always wanted to go into space, ever since I
started covering the space program. It was an opportunity
I couldn't pass up," said Recer, who left NTSU in
1961 before completing his degree in journalism.
There were 7,000journalists who originally expressed
interest in the journalist-in-space program, and 1,700
completed applications. From that number, 100 quarter-
finalists were selected, and that number was narrowed
to 40 in April.
According to Recer, five finalists will be selected
from that group by a panel of 15 journalists and educators.
Those five will be taken to the Johnson Space Center
in Houston for strenuous physical testing. After testing,
one journalist will be chosen for a future flight, and one
alternate will be named.
No timetable was set for the last stages of the
selection process, and Recer said recent problems with
space flights could have some bearing on the future of
the process.
Business pros return
More than 60 professionals returned to campus in April
for the College of Business Administration's second
Executive Alumni Participation Series.
"The series has a two-fold mission. First of all, it
gives our alumni a chance to get reacquainted with North
Texas and the college of business. Second, it gives our
students a chance to meet and mingle with executives,"
said Dr. Jay A. Smith, dean of the College of Businesss
Administration.
"This is a chance for us to showcase our students to
the executives. Several of the executives that came up
last fall (the first in the series) did not recruit on the
North Texas campus at that time, but are doing so now."
Jazzers named outstanding
The Two O'Clock Lab Band, directed by Jim Riggs
of the music faculty, received an award for outstanding
performance by a jazz big band in the ninth annual Down
Beat magazine Student Music Awards. Four band mem-
bers received outstanding performance awards.
Drummer Dan Wojciechowski and tenor saxophonist
George Allagaier, members of the spring band, were
cited for outstanding solo performances. Trombonist Joel
Adams and alto saxophonist David A. Pietro, fall band
"The report said that consideration should be given
to limiting civilians on shuttle flights. It will probably
be four of five years before we are back on a regular
launch schedule, so I expect some of the candidates will
drop out because of their age," Recer said.
Recer went to the Dallas Times Herald after leaving
NTSU, and after 18 months joined the Associated Press
in Tulsa. He also worked for AP in Dallas and San
Antonio before joining the AP's space center bureau in
1968.
He covered the Apollo missions, Apollo-Soyuz and
Sky lab before joining U.S. News and World Report in
Washington. He served that magazine as science editor
for five years before leaving for Houston when AP
resumed its coverage of the space program in 1982.
He gives C.E. "Pop" Shuford, Delbert McGuire
and Bob Stanley of the NTSU journalism faculty credit
for his success. "Their philosophy was that in order to
learn, you had to do it. They encouraged us to report
and write every day.
"I think the group I went to school with was pretty
hungry. We received a lot of criticism that was brutal
but also helpful. That training and our determination
got us where we are today."
members, also received outstanding performance awards.
Ted Cruz and Robert Louis Wechsler, students of Dan
Haerle, also were honored. Cruz led winners of the best
blues/pop/rock group in the college division, while
Wechsler was college winner in the best studio recording
competition.
It's never too late
Prospective older students attended a workshop, "It's
Never Too Late for College," in June.
Sue Witschi, coordinator of services for off-campus
students, said the workshop is designed for adults who
have never attended college or who have had their college
studies interrupted and who are interested in attending
NTSU. For information on future workshops, contact
Ms. Witschi at (817) 565-2648.
Staff members discussed financial aid, counseling and
testing, admissions and student employment. Several adult
students discussed their reasons for attending the uni-
versity, told of hurdles they overcame and offered advice.
Designers show their best
Top student apparel designs were modeled during
"Artwear '86," the seventh annual fashion show
featuring the work of fashion design majors in the art
department. The show was in the ballroom of the new
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center at NTSU.
A panel of judges made up of Dallas designers and
manufacturers selected designs from garments created during
the past school year.
Models for the show were from the Kim Dawson
Agency in Dallas, as is traditional, but this year some
NTSU students also modeled the designs.
Coordinator of the show and of fashion design is Dr.
Azam Kassirzadeh, who joined the art faculty last fall.
Dr. Kassirzadeli, a graduate of the University of London,
studied at the houses of Dior and Balenciaga in Paris,
and organized and chaired the fashion design department
of the only women's university in her native Iran before
going to Texas Woman's University for graduate work.
She has been a clothing consultant as well as a designer.
Her most recent work has involved inventing a computer-
ized aid for creating fashion designs and patterns.
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